Sheepsfoot blades are so much sexier than they sound. Show me yours.

[eveled]

I like things to be black and white, no point in having names to describe a specific shape, if the names are used loosely to describe different shapes. Not judging just commenting.

Don’t get me started on Bowies.

I also realize English and words are flexible and evolve.

 

[Blues]

Can you imagine how cumbersome it would become if we had to have a specific name for just each of the variants above? At a certain point, terms like modified, quasi, etc become quite useful.

I imagine some old timer in Rome looking at a young'n and opining: "You call that a gladius?"

 

[Railsplitter]

 

[JParanee]

 

[Jacques Mi]

That is a Rams foot!
HERESEY!

 

[eveled]

Can you imagine how cumbersome it would become if we had to have a specific name for just each of the variants above? At a certain point, terms like modified, quasi, etc become quite useful.

I imagine some old timer in Rome looking at a young'n and opining: "You call that a gladius?"

I agree. That is why I backed off my stance that they were not sheepsfoot and introduced modified into the conversation. Plus with pictures it’s all good.

I was biting my tounge until the “stretching the envelope” comment .

Eskimos have 50 + words for snow. We have one word to pair with thousands of adjectives.

 

[ferider]

Is that a Volunteer Model 4.5? I have this fixie with natural canvas micarta handle.

Yes ! Welcome to the club

 

[ferider]

Who is this KC?

Just Knifecenter. Unbiased

 

[eveled]

Just Knifecenter. Unbiased

I was wracking my brain trying to figure it out! So obvious. Thankyou.

 

[SharpBits]

I’m in the crusty old man group that say the majority of the blades shown are not Sheepsfoot blades. Call them what you want, but it wont make it so. I think I’m green here, so have yourselves a great toggle!

 

[jmh33]

 

[Steven65]

 

[Shorttime]

Yes.



I like blades that skew more towards a Nessmuk shape. The flat-edge blade of an "authentic" wharncliffe or sheepsfoot seems like I mostly end up using the front half inch or so of the blade, where something with a little bit of curve allows more of the cutting edge to be used in more situations.

Nesscliffe? Wharnmuck? Sheepsmuck? Wharnfoot? Reverse Wharnmucksheepstanto? Maybe there just needs to be a name that nobody is happy with, so everybody has something to unite against.....

 

[wonderboy1377s]

 

[ferider]

Funny, when I was going through my pictures, I was excluding quite a few because they were so obviously "Wharncliffes" not "Sheepsfeet"

For instance:

Then there is this one. Where the hell does it fit ? The knife that was not to be named ....

Joke aside, the last three are "Seaxes" in my head.

 

[Knives&Lint]

Maybe there just needs to be a name that nobody is happy with, so everybody has something to unite against.....

Sharksfoot!

 

[ferider]

In use today:

 

[unclekurty]

A Birdvis.

 

[Danke42]

A couple more for Sunday.

 

[woodysone]

I’m not sure if this in sheepsfoot, have to ask Andrew Takach or Zoe Crist what they were shooting for